Winner of craft show to discuss technique

MADISON Fiber artist Teresa Barkley, whose quilt, "Blue and
White Plates: The American Dream," took first prize in the juried
exhibit "State of the Craft: Contemporary Interpretations of
Tradition" at the Museum of Early Trades and Crafts in Madison,
will discuss her inspirations and techniques at 7 p.m. Wednesday,
Oct. 17, at the museum on Green Village Road at Main Street.
Barkley collects and integrates vintage fabrics in her work. Some
of her finished pieces have a postage-stamp look, representing the
sentiments of nations. Her "American Dream" quilt, now on view at
the museum, was commissioned du ring an invitational exhibit for
the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Barkley 's work has also
been featured at the American Museum of Quilts in San Jose, Cal
if.; the New England Quilt Museum in Lowell, Mass.; the Gallery of
the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinsburg, Tenn., and
the American Craft Museum in New York City. Her work is in the
permanent collection of the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum
of American Art in Washington, D.C.

Barkley's talk has been planned in conjunction with the "State
of the Craft" exhibit, which was funded in part by the Geraldine R.
Dodge Foundation. Admission to the lecture is $8 for museum members
and $10 for non-members. For information call 377-2982.

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